Events of the Month

OUR WORK. GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONS.

It has been decided by the conjoint boards of Young Men's and

Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement associations, to hold the annual conference on the thirtieth and thirty-first of May and the first of June, 1902, in Salt Lake City. The Mutual Improvement cause is one of great importance in the Church, and at the coming conference many useful instructions per- taining to the welfare of the societies and the labors of the officers will be imparted by members of the General Board. No officer can afford to miss this opportunity of familiarizing himself with the duties that will devolve upon him in the labors of the coming year, and, consequently, cannot afford to absent himself from the meetings of this general con- ference. On Friday and Saturday, meetings of the officers will be held separately, and on the Sunday following, general conjoint meetings will be held in the Tabernacle, to which the public and all the workers of the associations are earnestly invited. It is to be hoped that every stake of Zion and every ward in the Church will at least have a repre- sentative present in each of the officers' meetings.

THE NEW MANUAL.

Manual 6, for the year 1902-3, is now being prepared by the com- mittee of the General Board. It will treat on the Principles of the Gos-

pel, being a continuation of last year's Manual under this title, and will contain five leading topics under the headings that follow: 1. Universal Application of the Gospel; 2. The Church 3.

Mission of the Church; 4. Ethics of the Gospel; and 5. The Resurrection. These general subjects will be divided into about twenty lessons; and the

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Manual, besides treating upon the Eternity of the Fundamental Princi- ples, the Successive Dispensations, Work for the Dead, Church Organi- zation, Forms and Ceremonies, Revelation, Gathering, the Resurrection and the Judgment, will also deal with the Philosophy of the Gospel, and Practical Religion, including honesty, temperance, chastity, marriage, tithing, consecration, etc. Preliminary programs will be continued. The purpose of the Manual, and methods for teaching, will be among the important instructions that will be offered by members of the Board to the officers of the associations convened in the coming conference. As there are many new officers who will necessarily take the place of others who have been either promoted to the Priesthood quorums, or called away upon foreign missions, or who have been assigned to other labors in the Church, it is very necessary that the stake and ward organiza- tions should be complete, and that each stake and ward should be properly represented by officers that will remain with the associations for the season coming. The Y, M. M. I. A. are always supplied with many new officers, and it is especially important that these should attend the con- ference, so that they may become familiarized with the duties that will devolve upon them in their labors with the youth of Zion.

DO SOMETHING DURING SUMMER.

Too much stress cannot be laid upon the necessity of keeping the interest of the young men and the public alive in the associations and their work during the summer vacation. Some methods should be adopted by the officers of every stake to this end. Conjoint meetings of special interest should be held, and other means employed to engage the young people in social, literary and educational directions. In the Weber stake, a series of lectures has been arranged for by Superintendent John L. Herrick. These will be held in the Ogden Tabernacle, and the general public are invited to attend. The dates and speakers follow: April 22, Tuesday, 7:30 p. m., "Our Pre-existence and the Godhead," Elder B. H. Roberts. April 29, Tuesday, 7:30 p. m., "The Three Glories," Elder Charles W. Penrose. May 4, Sunday, 2 p. m., "Analysis of Faith," Professor James E. Talmage. May 13, Tuesday, 7:30 p. m., "Repent- ance and Baptism," Elder Nephi L. Morris. The Era will gladly print suggestions from the officers of any stake on how best to employ the vacation.

EVENTS OF THE MONTH. BY THOMAS HULL, GENERAL SECRETARY OF Y. M. M. L A.

— — Local March 16 The Salt Lake Stake conference convened and was more largely attended than any other ever held Susan Tullidge, widow of historian Edward W. TuUidge, died 19 Senator — Kearns lodges a protest with the President against the withdrawal of so much public land in Utah for forest reserves An enthusiastic celebration is held in Ogden to commemorate the beginning of work on the Lucin cut- off 18 —Senator Rawlins causes a lively debate in the Senate in an effort to have printed in the Record some Philippine cor- respondence The Tabernacle choir are cheered by the students of the University of California — 19 Rain was general all day over Utah — 20 Polks' directory just issued gives the popula- tion of Salt Lake City proper at 75,000; city and suburbs, 89,551 22 —Robert Mawson, aged 85, of Mill Creek, Salt Lake county, died The Eighteenth Ward square was purchased by Mrs. E. F. Holmes for $35,000 — 23 James Glendinning, born Scot- land, July 31, 1844, formerly mayor of Salt Lake City, died in Spokane, Wash — 24 The Salt Lake Tabernacle choir returned from the Paci- fic coast after an enjoyable trip — 25 James S. Brown, born North Carolina, July 4, 1829, a member of the "Mormon" battalion and with the discoverers of gold in California, died in Salt Lake City Henry Mainwaring, born England, Feb. 10, 1827, died in Springville, Utah Co — 26 ^W. M. Bradley succeeds W. C. Weaver as re- ceiver of the Ogden Water Works — 27 The bill providing for a miner's home on the Fort Douglas reserve is favorably reported to the Senate 30 — Sam. Collins was found murdered near Ensign Peak 31 —The mining dividends Utah for March were $360,- in

500; stock sales, 2,454,287 shares for $1,570,525.25; ore and bullion settlements, $1,410,190 The local land office is directed to with- draw 18 sections in Manti Canyon for a forest reserve Wm. H. Davis, age 78, a pioneer of 1866, died in Pleasant Grove, Utah Co. April 1 —John Sears, born England, October, 1822, died in Salt Lake City Senator Rawlins' bill for a fish hatchery in Utah is fav-